So finally, here's some tips for eating your five day meals. So split them up if necessary. If you can't see any 1000 calories of rice in one go then split it up into two or three meals as long as you're getting that, that amount of you know the right amount of calories a day. If you're looking to lose weight, I'd say decrease the calories you need to eat by 500 per day no more than 500 a day or should end up in starvation mode. But yeah, you can eat slightly less if you want. But if Remember, if you're very active, then eat more in the 21 day meal plan in the book The 25 diet.
The meal plan is based around a 2000 calorie per day diet. So that's basically for an inactive woman. So if you're an active woman, you need to be to more and less looking to lose weight. If you're a man or a very active mind, you need To be a lot, lot more so yeah 2000 calories as your baseline if you're an active woman 2500 to 3000 calories. If you're an active man, I would say 3000 calories plus. So yeah, back to some tips.
Eat fruit fast and not after your hearty cooked fiber meal so you don't want to be eating dates or peaches or apples or anything after a big brown rice meal it's going to sit and make you feel really bloated and you're not going to feel good on this diet. So fruit first, you can eat the meals in any order apart from the blood cleanser is first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. That's Yeah, that's always to be had first thing I would recommend having your vitamin vitality meal next, followed by your fat loss sugar meal, followed by your particle fire the mail or your raw clay mineral meal. Okay, so yeah, if it's wintertime, maybe eat more cooked food, and then maybe cut back and eat less than 50% cooked foods in the summertime have more big salads and seasonal salad fruits and things and vegetables.
Remember that you'll be eating bigger volumes of food on this diet because the foods are high fiber and they're low fat and low calorie, then literally the amount of space on your plate taken up by these foods will be a lot bigger, a lot more. Some people find this really good, it means they can, you know, eat a lot of food and still lose weight. That's one of the things I like about it. Other people that will be difficult, you know, you're not used to eating such big volumes of food. So it's just about in the first few weeks and the first 21 days of this meal plan, getting used to the amounts of foods that you're eating and getting familiar with that and seeing what kind of works for you as well. So I would say start with a 21 day meal plan.
The meal plan is in the book as a guide. It's not something that's not what I Stick to religiously for my whole life. You know, do that those 21 days and then mix and match are five daily meals and you can make up your own as well. So yeah, you know basically you take a starch or whole grain for your heart to cook fiber meal say you add some vegetables and then you add some hops and spices say one day you could have brown rice with broccoli and tomatoes and sweet corn and then have cumin and coriander and garam masala with a little bit of a golf a syrup is like an Indian flavored meal. The next day you could have white arborio rice with tomatoes and mushrooms and artichokes and have things like Oregon oh and basil and taragan and have a more kind of Italian flavor meal and add in some tomato puree or something and a little bit of a garden Gabi so it's very simple once you get this print these principles to make up your own meals as well which is the the beauty of this.
So yeah the purpose of the 21 days is to get you familiar with the five meals and used to making up some example recipes